Word: bug
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...money." Last January, reflecting on the difficulties of campaigning in enemy territory, he said that "all the farmers in the field ran away as if someone with AIDS was knocking on their door." In February, he asserted that the Americans had all "bought guns" in preparation for the Y2K bug "because when electrical power fails in the U.S., the gangs and murderers come out. Such is American society." Last month he charged that teachers in Okinawa were communist-controlled subversives...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...
...Network Systems determined that the problems lay with an "operating system bug" associated with new software that is intended to more efficiently control information flow through the Harvard network...
...Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before a bug that's immune scuttles out from underneath someone's fridge...
...called some Apple iMovie execs, who said mine was the first such bug report they'd had. They did, however, recommend that iMovies not be longer than about 40 clips. If I was beyond that stage, they suggested, I should get Final Cut Pro, professional editing software that costs $999 and currently runs only on a top-of-the-line PowerMac...